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Tag: 01.10.12
NY Philharmonic Conductor Stops Concert When Ringtone Interrupts
When an audience member in the front row allowed his iPhone to ring loudly for several minutes during the final movement of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, maestro Alan Gilbert halted the music and stared down the offender until (after another minute) he turned the device off.
Sondheim To Write New Songs For Film Version Of Into The Woods
“Oscar-nominated director Rob Marshall is reteaming with Disney for a film adaptation of Into the Woods, the classic 1980s Broadway musical written by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. … Lapine is now at work on the script, which Marshall expects to feature new songs by Sondheim.”
Washington National Opera To Finish Ring Cycle, Begin Commissioning Project
After having abandoned the production with one opera left to go, the company announced that it would revive and stage the full Wagner tetralogy in 2016. In addition, WNO is launching a three-tiered New American Works project, beginning next season.
Literature Is Played Out – Always Has Been, Always Will Be
“‘We come too late to say anything which has not been said already,’ lamented La Bruyère at the end of the 17th century. The fact that he came too late even to say this (Terence having pipped him to the post back in the 2nd century BC) merely proved his point.”
Hollywood’s Tough Year
“The decline in home movie sales comes after a fallow year at the box-office. Despite the success of the latest Transformers, Harry Potter and Pirates of the Caribbean movies – which each grossed more than $1-billion worldwide – total ticket sales fell by 4.5 per cent, although the decline was slightly offset by higher ticket prices. Revenues from ticket sales fell $390-million to $10.2-billion, a fall of 3.7 per cent on 2010, according to BoxOffice.com, which tracks box office performance.”
Study: Anonymous Online Commenters Post “Highest Quality” Comments
One of the most popular commenting services for news websites and blogs says its data shows that commenters using pseudonyms are “the most important contributors to online communities.”
Photographer Jan Groover, 68
“Among the first photographers to be embraced in the late ’70s and early ’80s by New York galleries (Sonnabend and Robert Miller) previously more disposed toward painters and sculptors, she also became in 1987 one of a handful of women to ever receive a solo show of her photographs at the Museum of Modern Art.”
Why Is It So Hard To Find Good Arts Managers?
“The past two years, so many arts groups in North Texas have had to find new directors, managing directors and CEOs that people have wondered if there was something wrong — with the Arts District? With Dallas in general?” Turns out it’s not just in Texas…
Salman Rushdie’s Impending Visit To India Becomes Political Battleground
Still outraged over The Satanic Verses after 24 years, a major Muslim seminary in northern India has demanded that Rushdie’s visa to enter the country for this month’s Jaipur Literary Festival. (Rushdie holds an Indian passport.) The question has become an issue in upcoming elections in one of India’s largest states.